The State Corporation Commission (SCC) appointed Jacqueline K. Cunningham to serve as Virginia’s 13th Insurance Commissioner in the 104-year history of the SCC’s regulation of the insurance industry.

Cunningham had been deputy commissioner of the life and health division of the SCC’s Bureau of Insurance for more than six years. She had been employed by the SCC in various capacities within the Bureau since 1993.

Cunningham has been actively engaged in efforts of the NAIC regarding state responses to the requirements of federal health care law. She also is actively engaged with the Virginia Health Reform Initiative, providing technical support to its efforts to ensure meaningful reform that meets the needs of Virginia’s citizens and government.